I am in agreement, Mists of Avalon is definitely one of my all-time favorite books. Has anyone seen the made-for-tv movie of it? Also very good, though they were forced to leave a LOT of stuff out. I think I'll go re-read that book now that I'm thinking about it...

I saw the movie first. Fell in love with it. THEN, I checking the extras, and went "OMG, It's a book, too!"

I'm still looking for a copy of it, but haven't found one yet. The book is 10 times better, but even making it a 4 hr tv movie (or however long it was) they had to cut out the "important" parts.

You really want to spend an afternoon ranting and raving... Catch it when they actually show it on TV and try to make it only two hours. You wouldn't even know they were the same story.

One of my biggest irks of the movie though was Morgana's aunt (Damn it, can't remember her name, and I'm at work so I can't check). Even in her worst moments in the book, she was nowhere near the double crossing, power-hungry, insane "kill 'em all, question them later" b***h that she was in the movie. Really, could they make her character any more different.

Trying to create a world, even in words, is good occupational therapy for lunatics who think they're God, and an excellent argument for Polytheism. -S.M. Stirling

I go through periods where I get bored of stuff that I loved and come back to it a few years later. I think I am in a bored with fanatasy phase. I am waiting until July 21st........Oh YEah, Harry Potter book 7!!!!

And for the next (and final?) Robert Jordon (Pray to whatever you like that he doesn't die).

Seriously though, I hear Terry Pratchette thrown around a lot...what is a good book from him/her to start with.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)

Oh, and for anybody looking, the Mists of Avalon DVD is selling on ebay for a little more than you might pay for lunch at McDonalds (approx. $8 Can, $6 US). Just search for Mists of Avalon DVD and it comes up with about 17 different sellers.

Trying to create a world, even in words, is good occupational therapy for lunatics who think they're God, and an excellent argument for Polytheism. -S.M. Stirling

forgotten oceans wrote:Windwalker: D**n it! Now I feel the need to go read Watership Down again for the one thousandth time. I think my favorite part was about the story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inle. heheh

It always bugged me that they never finished that story. Have you read Tales from Watership Down? Good, but odd. And not nearly enough Bigwig for my taste.

Has anyone read the Witches of Eileanan series?

The book that always makes me cry, every time, without fail, is Phantom of the Opera. Erik's monologue to the Persian at the end, seriously....

I liked Tales from Watership Down, but not as well as the first, I think I missed Blackberry more then I thought I would.

*gasp!* Phantom of the Opera!! I love that book/movie/old rock crap movie. The whole story just twists around me, seeps in and leaves me satisfied, like trashy love novels for house wives. Whenever I get an itch for romance, that's what I read.

*trudges off to spend a week in the closet reading everything over again*

Maybe now you're starting to understand that while I may have been born predispositioned to be pretty batty, my parents saw to it that it was a certainty and completely unavoidable. -Me